Two Franco-American Writers : Dantin and Dion-Lévesque

Lee, Sonia

Article exploring the author's notion of cultural "interfacing" through the French Canadian and Anglo American contexts of Montréal-born Louis Dantin (Eugene Seers) and Nashua, New Hampshire native, Rosaire Dion-Lévesque. Both authors wrote in French in early twentieth-century New England. Discussion of Dantin's best-known work, "Les enfances de Fanny," situated in Roxbury, Massachusetts; thoughts on its indifference to "American culture" and to some other themes that predominate other Franco American novels. How the later poetry of Dion-Lévesque, his French translations of Walt Whitman, and his attitudes toward "American culture" compare to the works of Dantin.

1978 summer

en

Journal Article

Early 20th century

New England

0163-755X (print)

1946-3170 (online)

MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States)

5

2

25-32